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The Human Computer I’ve never had a happy time with computers. I’ve avoided them for as long as I could but recently this has become an impossible position. I think they prosecute people who don’t have an email address.
This is a show about computers, by someone who knows nothing about them. In it, amongst other things, I have become a computer, or fallen into a computer, or something. My head sort of becomes a computer. You’d have to see it.
Lots of it isn’t about computers. It’s stories. It’s a cardboard cabaret. A skewed stand-up quest to the wiry heart of the cyber web, and into the reasons I once hit a 7 year old girl with a stick (I was 6 and she was annoying).
A world premiere from 2004 Perrier Award winner and 2006 Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale.
Click here to go to The Human Computer website.
Written and performed by Will Adamsdale
Dramaturg Kate McGrath
Original music and sound design by Chris Branch (www.brainsandhunch.com)Reviews of The Human Computer
The Herald ****
“It's a flight of fancy both hilarious and heroic, as Adamsdale's geeky persona masks a surreal, sci-fi-inspired mind downloaded and made flesh in a brilliantly audacious fashion.”Metro ****
“Adamsdale has charm and witty one-liners to burn.”The Guardian
“Adamsdale is creating a body of work that rides roughshod over the boundaries between comedy and theatre, making us laugh even as it asks the big questions.”Telegraph
“very funny indeed”The Times ****
"poetic and poignant as well as extremely funny"Audience feedback on The Human Computer
“Great interaction with the audience. Very funny – I laughed a lot.”
“Fantastic. I love the authentic autobiographical stories. It’s great to have a confused person’s guide to the absurdities of modern life.”
“Great, original comedy.”
2006, scratched as part of BAC's Imagination Festival
March 2007, scratched in the Main House at BAC
July 2007, preview performances at BAC
August 2007, Traverse 3 Drill Hall, Edinburgh Fringe
November 2007, BAC
12 - 15 May 2010, London, BAC17 May 2010, Canterbury, Gulbenkian Theatre
19 - 20 May 2010, Bristol, Mayfest
26 May 2010, Stockton on Tees, ARC
28 - 29 May 2010, Newbury, New Greenham Arts
3 June 2010, London, Croydon Clocktower
The Human Computer is available for touring. Please contact Kate McGrath for more information.
For Will Adamsdale's biography see his biog page
To download images for The Human Computer click here.
Originally a BAC Scratch Commission .
